Launched Cosmos 2104, a Zenit-8 ("Oblik") photoreconnaissance satellite, from Plesetsk for Soviet military intelligence, returning film-based imagery of denied areas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 570th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 16 November 1990, 16:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-098
- Launches in 1990
- 103rd of 121
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